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Airbag Maker Can’t Promise Inflators Won’t Explode, Hurl Shrapnel
A company that makes airbag inflators that have exploded in eight incidents involving two deaths and seven injuries argued Tuesday that it can't say for sure whether its inflators might cause further ...
Strategic Portfolio Management Needed to Address Wildfire Risk
Economic losses from wildfires remain a concern for 2023, despite last year's average season, according to a new report by Gallagher Re. Climate change, shifting weather patterns and homes that ...
Titan Sub’s Unique Design May Have Destined It for Disaster
The deadly implosion of the Titan submersible raises questions about whether the vessel exploring the Titanic wreckage was destined for disaster because of its unconventional design and its creator's ...
Court Rules U.S. Must Pay For Contributing to 2011 Mo. River Flooding
The U.S. government may have to pay tens of millions of dollars—or more—to landowners along the Missouri River after a court ruled it worsened flooding there since 2007 that killed crops and ...
Judge Fines Lawyers $5,000 For Using Bogus Case Law From ChatGPT
A federal judge on Thursday imposed $5,000 fines on two lawyers and a law firm in an unprecedented instance in which ChatGPT was blamed for their submission of fictitious legal research in an ...
Report: Advanced Digital Economies Wary of AI
Trust in artificial intelligence (AI) varies depending on how digitally advanced a country is, a recent study by the Swiss Re Institute found. In advanced digital economies, a third of respondents on ...
3M Reaches Tentative $10.3B Deal Over US ‘Forever Chemicals’ Claims
3M Co has reached a $10.3 billion settlement with a host of U.S. public water systems to resolve water pollution claims tied to "forever chemicals," the chemical company announced on Thursday. The ...
New Railroad Rule Would Require Alert to First Responders Within 10 Miles of Derailment
Federal regulators want first responders to a train derailment to know exactly what they are dealing with even before they reach the scene, because the dangerous chemicals trains carry might require ...